Listen To This

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I found this hardback for a quid in Faversham the other day -




And some music theory now -

Alex Ross: Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues

The book has one chapter on Bjork. Hence previous post and his discovery of Bob Dylan.

Alex Ross: The Beatles and Bob Dylan, New and Acquired Tastes

Part I

1. Listen to This: Crossing the Border from Classical to Pop

2. Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History

3. Infernal Machines: How Recordings Changed Music

Part II

4. The Storm of Style: Mozart’s Golden Mean

5. Orbiting: Radiohead’s Grand Tour

6. The Anti-Maestro: Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic

7. Great Soul: Searching for Schubert

8. Emotional Landscapes: Björk’s Saga

9. Symphony of Millions: Classical Music in China

10. Song of the Earth: The Arctic Sound of John Luther Adams

11. Verdi’s Grip: Opera as a Popular Art

12. Almost Famous: On the Road with the St. Lawrence Quartet

13. Edges of Pop: Kiki and Herb, Cecil Taylor and Sonic Youth, Sinatra, Kurt Cobain

14. Learning the Score: The Crisis in Music Education

15. Voice of the Century: Marian Anderson

16. The Music Mountain: Mitsuko Uchida at Marlboro

17. The End of Silence: John Cage

[chapter added for paperback and European editions]

Part III

18. I Saw the Light: Following Bob Dylan

19. Fervor: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

20. Blessed Are the Sad: Late Brahms